Thesis Latex Template

1. Introduction

I decided to write up this thesis template because I was not happy with many of the templates available to date. This template aims to achieve certain goals which include the following:

• Easy To Use
• Simple
• Professional
• Easy To Modify

2. Requirements

The beauty of using this template is that there are no requirements besides using TexLive. I would recommend using TextMate and MacTeX 2008. The combination of these applications are undoubtedly very powerful.

2.1 Updating MacTeX

There is some bugs with the tlmgr application when installed from the mpkg. That being said, there is an easy three step set of commands that will fix-up your install.

sudo tlmgr option location http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
sudo tlmgr update bin-texlive texlive.infra
sudo tlmgr update --all